Data and Database Management Software
Software provides self-healing space management.
Press Release Summary:
Designed to deploy autonomic computing for storage management, Tivoli® Allocation Optimizer for z/OS® v1.2 proactively enables z/OS application to heal itself from shortage of space by automatically optimizing allocation requests. Program helps prevent and minimize processing delays and interruptions that can result from X37-type abnormal ends and Job Failed job control language errors. It supports both SMS and non-SMS managed VSAM data sets.
Original Press Release:
IBM Tivoli Allocation Optimizer for z/OS V1.2 is Designed to Deliver Increased Application Availability for the z/OS Platform Through Self-healing Space Management
V1.2 key benefits:
Helps prevent and reduce costly processing delays and interruptions that can result from X37 abends and JOB FAILED JCL errors
Helps to determine the total number of abends avoided or recovered in your system
Supports both SMS and non-SMS managed VSAM data sets
Automatically detects and recovers from DIRECTORY FULL conditions, thereby preserving business continuity and avoiding costly time-consuming outages
Delivers increased flexibility to include specific items in, or exclude specific items from, IBM Tivoli Allocation Optimizer for z/OS V1.2 processing based on new selection criteria that help simplify rule definition
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Overview
IBM Tivoli® Allocation Optimizer for z/OS® V1.2 is a solution included in the IBM family of products designed to deploy autonomic computing for storage management. Autonomic computing can help increase system and application availability with new levels of automatic self-healing and self-optimizing storage management software designed for enterprises running mission-critical applications on the z/OS platform.
IBM Tivoli Allocation Optimizer for z/OS V1.2 can help provide higher availability. It is designed to proactively enable your z/OS application to heal itself from shortage of space by automatically optimizing allocation requests to help provide more effective use of resources. It also can help prevent and reduce costly processing delays and interruptions that can result from X37-type abnormal ends (abends) and JOB FAILED job control language (JCL) errors that occur due to insufficient disk space during new allocations.
Key new features in Release 2 are designed to:
Support Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) data sets
Give ability to dynamically increase the directory space within a partitioned data set when a DIRECTORY FULL condition occurs
Provide comprehensive event recording and reporting options that can help you retain important historical information that can be archived, retrieved, and reported upon using a variety of methods, including the ability to create customized reports
Provide enhanced selection criteria support that includes:
Systems managed storage (SMS)-related criteria that can enable you to include or exclude SMS-managed data sets based on storage class, storage group, data class, management class, and so on
VOLSER support that can enable you to include or exclude allocations based on the VOLSER specification in the JCL
Disposition support that can enable you to include or exclude allocations based on the disposition specification in the JCL
Unit name support that can enable you to include or exclude allocations based on the unit name specification in the JCL
Mount usage type support that can enable you to include or exclude allocations based on the mount usage type specification in the JCL
Data set organization support that can enable you to include or exclude allocations based on the DSORG specification in the JCL
Temporary data set support that can enable you to include or exclude allocations based on whether or not the data set is a temporary data set
Planned availability date
December 9, 2005
